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The Nightmare, it begins anew.

Aug14

So anyway, I collect and occasionally play Wyrd Games products like Malifaux and the like.
I’ve a range of stuff all the way from1st edition all the way through to the beta of 2nd edition wave 3.
I have three entirely different sculpts of Ramos and his Avatar, so you could say I’m a bit invested.

Anyway, Wyrd are a regular at Gencon over in the USA, a totally massive event.
Wyrd also have a tendency to release new stuff at Gencon.
Wyrd release Gencon exclusive items, referred to as Nightmare editions.
Wyrd also release special gencon exclusive bonus miniatures if you order $100+ worth of product, last year was the Steamborg Miss Step, this year is the female Teddy Miss Ery.

Now I know some of you might be annoyed that you can’t get to Gencon to pick up all the new gear, limited editions, the latest boxed sets and books and so on.
Don’t worry, Wyrd have got you covered.

For the duration of Gencon you can order all the things they’re selling at the event, you can get the exclusive and bonus kits, you can order the new books.
You just need to head over to their webstore and make an order.
That’s how simple it is.

I of course planned a different order to what I made. I intended to get the Nightmare Whiskey Golem, M2E book 2, and the first two books for Through The Breach. Instead I ordered the Golem, Hannah and The Kin.
The reason being the astronomical cost of international postage on the books.
So I’m holding off on those until I have a spare extra $70 on hand.
At least I get the Nightmare figure and Miss Ery.

So go order some stuff and hit me up for a game in Melbourne sometime on a Sunday afternoon at Good Games.

Hireds Swords – The miscasts box.

Jun9

Here’s something with a slightly different spin to it.

I play Malifaux (well I do when people I know aren’t working over in Japan), and I’ve really started collecting since I started getting games in.

To date I own three Ramos (original, alternate and plastic) type crews, somewhere Nicodem has gone hiding, Pandora (plastic), Marcus (metal), Misaki, Yan Lo, Dreamer, this is just to name a sample (and names are currently hiding with Nicodem for the ones I’ve got that I’ve not mentioned yet).

My most recent acquisition is the Viktorias Hired Swords plastic box.

It’s stuff like this that reminds me of just how much plastic can be used to make.
Well once you get over the limitations of steel die-casting not being able to produce things like undercuts.

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Keeping in mind this is not an ideal miniature photographic setup and that I’ve got a bit more cleanup to do prior to painting.

Most of this stuff went together, well other than a lack of tolerance with the pieces, some of them being rather fine (seriously hands tend to end up separate with malifaux at the 30mm scale) and the Student of Conflict’s braids snapping in half with no real application of force (she’s the one front and centre).

The reason I called this a miscast box is for something that seems utterly hard to comprehend happening in a box containing parts purely designed on computer and then directly laid out on sprue.

I write of Ronin 3’s left arm. She’s the one on the back left, and it was bizarrely wrong.
To put it simply, the shoulder was reversed.
If attached as it was, the arm would more or less be broken with the elbow facing the wrong way.
Not only that but it would end up pointing away from the left hand in a way that even the resurrectionists would be ashamed.

It’s a little disappointing that I had to sever her arm at the shoulder, then turn it around and re-attach it.
With operations like that when flesh and cloth are involved you have to be really careful to make sure everything lines up right.
Can’t use a pair of side-cutters either, those gouge out way too much material.
Carefully with a scalpel I cut around the edge of a band on the upper arm and accomplished this without making it look like she’s horribly deformed.

What I’m trying to say is this, when you’re paying a premium price (ok, so significantly less than games workshop level) for something designed and laid out on computer and mass produced with all the associated images based off the same original 3d model used to generate everything from artwork to instructions, having a part be quite simply wrong is really disappointing.

The consumer shouldn’t have to fix an issue directly out of the box with anything, especially if all the rest of it is perfect.

All I can say is it would totally suck for a regular gamer to have to deal with something like that.

And thus ends my first Malifaux post of any real note on here.